Episode 5 Think Tank

Meet our Think Tank. They answered general knowledge questions

under exam conditions before the show.

The answers are in, but how helpful will they be

to the three contestants?

Playing the game are Karen,

a digital and quality administrator from Berkshire,

Jim a retired quality technician from Kilmarnock

and Chris, a DJ from Sheffield.

This is Think Tank.

Welcome to the show. Welcome, as ever, to our Think Tank,

an assortment of people from all over the country.

They are not professional quizzers, but they do their best to pick up

interesting nuggets of information.

For instance, according to Anisha, the ancient Egyptians shaved off

their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.

-Mm-hm.

-There you go, contestants, you are learning already.

Eight minds in front of you to help you through the game.

Karen, nice to have you with us.

You are a digital and quality administrator.

I don't think I've ever met one of those before.

-What does that mean?

-It's a very unique job.

I have to take pictures of products - bread, pancakes,

crumpets, etc. - and send them to our bakery

so that we can say that...

-"This is the perfect loaf. Use this loaf."

-Yeah, that's it.

-And I'm responsible for...

-There is a loaf or two

that could be used here. Some of you are into baking, aren't you?

-Who liked baking?

-I like baking.

OK. What's your strongest subject going to be?

Music, films, television.

And where do you need help?

Literature and history, not too good.

Well, vast depths of help for you here. Literature for Max, of course.

Arminel, history.

-SHE SCOFFS

-We hope so.

We always say you are good at literature, Max,

but what is your least favourite subject?

What do you fear being asked about?

Oh, sitting next to Arminel, I'm very,

very afraid to get any science questions cos I do feel like

I will get a rap across the knuckles if I get anything wrong.

LAUGHTER OK. Good to have you with us, Karen.

-Thank you.

-Jim, you look like a sort of fellow who's got a lucky face.

-Are you lucky?

-I've had my share of bad luck.

In fact, we appeared in a Scottish newspaper

as the unluckiest family in Scotland.

Really, what happened? What happened?

Well, several things.

We get hit by lightning, we were six weeks out of the house.

My son bought his very first-ever car on a Wednesday.

-Somebody stole it on the Thursday.

-LAUGHTER

So, you know, there were several other things,

but at the end of the day, I suppose,

it depends how you class luck.

Well, I think we know how to class luck in your case.

LAUGHTER Bad, bad luck.

We are all still here, that's the main thing.

-And has your luck fortune improved since then?

-Oh, definitely.

Yes, definitely.

What is your best subject going to be?

Well, I think music, probably.

Preferably '60s and '70s.

And what will you be not so good at?

The arty type things - opera, classical music,

-that sort of side of it.

-OK.

All right, Jim, lovely to have you with us. And, Chris, you are a DJ.

Yes, indeed. Yeah, I am a DJ. Yeah.

You look a confident sort of young man,

but anything you are particularly afraid of?

When I was like 15, 16,

I had recurring nightmares about going bald all the time.

I was convinced I was going to go bald by the age of sort of 17.

Now, I'm 27. I sort of treat every day as a bonus.

-LAUGHTER

-I feel like I've done all right.

-Yeah, no, well, it hasn't happened yet and it's all still there.

-Yeah.

And we can't see the join, so it's a OK.

All right, your best subject then will be music, presumably.

Yeah, yeah, presumably, but we shall see.

-And where do need help?

-Sport, I'm pretty terrible.

In fact, I don't think I know a single fact about cricket.

-It's a game of two halves.

-Yeah.

-LAUGHTER

Well, look, glad to have you all with us.

Thanks very much for being here.

Over three rounds, our contestants will try to tap into the

knowledge of the Think Tank to build up as much money as possible.

They have tried to answer all the questions to the best of

their ability, whether right or wrong.

The two highest scorers then go through to the final.

Ultimately, just one will walk away with the cash prize,

so let's play the first round.

In this round, I'm going to ask you a question and then every member

of the Think Tank will reveal the answer they gave before the show.

The right answer is always there somewhere,

but also any number of mistakes.

Pick out the correct answer, £200 will be added to your prize fund.

Two questions each. Karen, you are first.

Here's a question we put to the Think Tank.

What did the Think Tank come up with here? Anisha.

Lizards.

Nippers.

Newts.

Puppies.

Dave.

Pups.

Hatchlings.

Hatchlings.

Well, in some senses, you can give any name you like to

a newly-born alligator, but we really wanted the term.

So, what do you think, Karen?

Well, it's definitely not Dave.

LAUGHTER

Because I've got a degu and he's called Dave.

So, it's not that.

I am going to go with Max and Arminel

-and I'm going to say hatchlings.

-Hatchlings.

The name given to newly-born alligators.

You are saying hatchlings. Let's see if you are right.

Hatchlings, it is.

-Because they do hatch out of eggs, don't they?

-Absolutely.

-Yes.

-Lucky guess.

-Well, very good guess indeed.

I was just copying Arminel.

Looking over her shoulder.

But you are under exam conditions.

How strict is it, then, when you're sitting through all this?

It's terrible, actually. We are all answering them in different orders,

so we are not actually answering the same questions at the same time.

So that means that some of us are fresher for some questions

-than other people.

-It means you can't whisper the answers

-to each other either.

-No, no, exactly.

And that's why some of us will give more bonkers answers,

when some of us are giving sensible answers.

Speaking of bonkers answers, Peter?

I think they do look like a Dave.

LAUGHTER

Karen, well done. £200 is added to your prize fund.

Jim, you've seen how it works. Here's your first question.

Where did the Think Tank go with this? Anisha.

Newcastle.

Liverpool.

London.

Cardiff.

Birmingham.

Birmingham.

Birmingham.

Birmingham.

Very strong vote for Birmingham, but several other cities there as well.

What do you think, Jim?

Well, I've never actually seen the TV drama.

There certainly seems to be a penchant for Birmingham.

I'm going to go along with

Peter, Jordan, Arminel and Max.

I'm going to go with the majority, Birmingham.

Birmingham. The title characters of the TV drama

Peaky Blinders, from which city where this series is mainly set.

Jim, you are saying Birmingham. Let's see if you are right.

That's correct. Birmingham. Well done.

LAUGHTER

It stars Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory and Tom Hardy.

-And anybody know what a peaky blinder is?

-Yes.

-Yeah.

It's the razor blade sewn into the front of the peaked cap.

OK, that you can presumably blind somebody with.

Yes, I have watched a few episodes of Peaky Blinders. All right,

very good. OK. Well done, Jim.

£200 is added to your prize fund and, Chris, we move on to you.

Here's what the Think Tank thought of that one.

Chris Eubank.

Henry Cooper.

Amir Khan.

Muhammad Ali.

Tim Henman.

Chris Eubank.

Frank Bruno.

Amir Khan.

So, it's several different names to choose from there.

What do you think, Chris?

I've got to say, I don't know too much about boxing,

so I'm not really too sure.

There is one in particular I'm pretty sure

I can rule out right away.

I don't think Tim Henman

ever took part in any boxing.

I'm thinking that it might be

Chris Eubank just because he

has such a large personality.

Yeah, I don't think it would be any of the others, although

this is really purely a guess.

I'm going to go with Jordan and say Chris Eubank.

Chris Eubank, OK.

Which boxer was the first man to win

the BBC Sports Personality of The Year award twice?

You are saying Chris Eubank.

Let's see if you have the right winner there.

-It was Henry Cooper, in fact. ALL:

-Ooh!

That was in 1967 and 1970.

Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill and Andy Murray have also all won twice.

Anisha and Jordan both went for Chris Eubank,

who's never actually won it.

And although, we all like saying, "Come on, Tim,"

we've never actually done it ringside, Peter.

OK, so nothing for you there, Chris, but plenty of other chances to come.

And, Karen, we come back to you for your second question.

Here's what the Think Tank made of that one.

Iron.

Carbon.

Carbon.

Clay.

Iron.

Iron.

Oxygen.

Carbon.

Well, what do you think there, Karen?

Hm.

It's definitely not oxygen.

That's more of an atmosphere thing,

isn't it, rather than the crust?

Carbon...

A lot of people have said carbon.

I think, though, I'm going to go for iron.

-Iron.

-Yes.

-OK. The most abundant element by weight

in the Earth's crust, you are saying iron.

Let's see if you're right.

-It is oxygen, in fact.

-Oh, my goodness!

-Shall I explain?

-LAUGHTER

Arminel will do this for you because it is her topic.

-Chemistry teacher Arminel.

-Yes.

It's combined, of course. It's not oxygen, the gas,

but it's present, combined with iron, combined with carbon

and carbonates, combined with silica and silicates, which is sand.

So it's just combined.

On a science question, you never go against the teacher.

-Thank goodness.

-LAUGHTER

So nervous about that question.

-Sorry.

-OK, nothing for you there, I'm afraid, Karen.

Jim, we go for your second question.

Here's what the Think Tank thought of this.

Duran Duran.

The Clash.

Kiss.

The Clash.

Crowded House.

Madness.

The Clash.

The Clash.

Half of the Think Tank going with The Clash,

but there are other choices there too.

Well, I did say that music was one of my stronger subjects, Bill.

And Joe Strummer and Mick Jones,

I'm absolutely certain,

were members of The Clash.

The Clash, Joe Strummer and

Mick Jones were members of which influential bands

in the '70s and '80s? You are saying The Clash.

Let's see if you are right.

The Clash, it is. Well done.

-Thank you.

-Famous songs, of course, London Calling,

Rock The Casbah and Should I Stay Or Should I Go.

-No, stay.

-LAUGHTER

Thanks, I'll hang around for a bit.

OK. £200 for you, Jim.

And, Chris, here is your second question.

What did the Think Tank weigh up on this one?

Six.

Ten.

Eight.

Nine.

Six.

60.

100.

80.

Pick a number, any number, just one of those.

Again, much like sports, science is certainly not one of my

stronger subjects, so I think based on the subject...

I think I'm going to have to go with Arminel, really.

And it kind of, sort of, makes sense.

Usually names are given in tens and hundreds,

so I think I'm going to go with 100.

-Yeah, 100.

-100.

How many grams are there in a hectogram?

You say it is 100. Let's see if you are right.

100, it is. Well done.

Thank you.

Any explanations as to why it's called

a hectogram, particularly, Arminel?

Well, yes.

-LAUGHS:

-Unfortunately, yes.

Because when you think about the divisions, you know,

you have milli-, which is 1,000th,

but you have kilo-, which is 1,000 times.

So you have milli- for the Latin and then you go up to kilo-,

which is bigger, into the Greek.

So when it comes to 100, centi- is the smaller one,

which is from the Latin and hecto- is the bigger one,

which is from the Greek.

Stick with the teacher, stick with the teacher.

Thank you very much.

£200 for you, Chris. That brings us to the end of the first round.

Let's take a look at how you all are doing.

Karen and Chris are tied on £200.

Jim is in the lead, though, with £400.

That could all change in our next round.

Every member of the Think Tank is holding two questions,

which they answered correctly before the show.

You'll take it in turns to pick someone from the Think Tank

whose knowledge you think you can match.

For every correct answer,

another £200 will be added to your prize fund.

The range of questions reflects their varied interests and

knowledge. Once a Think Tanker has asked both of their questions,

they cannot be picked again.

So, Karen, you get to go first. The whole bunch is to choose from.

Who do you think is of the same knowledge bank as you?

Hm. I'm hoping they're all better.

I would like to choose Arminel, please.

Right, OK.

This is a maths question.

Who first said that in a right-angled triangle

the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares

of the other two sides?

Goodness me, maths is definitely not my thing.

I'm going to have to hazard a guess, I think.

I'll go really blindly and say something like Einstein,

-but I don't think it is, is it?

-Einstein?

No, unfortunately not.

-I mean, I think you will have heard of it, it's Pythagoras.

-Yes.

-It was just a long time ago.

-Mm-hm.

-6th century BC even.

-Wow!

And his theories, of course, still taught today. Very useful. OK.

Nothing for you there, then, Karen. Jim, you are up next.

And you can choose anybody you like.

I'll go for Cleve, seeing as he likes a bit of music and whatever.

Cleve, our master musician.

Let's hear your question you answered correctly before the show.

Apart from playing music, and I do love music, one of my passions

-is sports, in general, and this is actually a sporting question.

-OK.

The question is...

I think I know this one, although I'm not a big Olympic fan.

I would go for five.

Five. Five, Cleve?

-Yeah, five!

-LAUGHTER

-Absolutely fantastic.

-Thank you.

And the five rings represent the five major continents of the world.

£200 more for your total, Jim. Chris, we come to you.

-I think, for this round, I'm also going to go for Cleve.

-Cleve again.

The National Media Museum, in which English city?

I imagine the obvious choice is to go for London just because it's the

biggest city, but I think Manchester and Birmingham are also...

big media cities.

But then, Cleve is from Leeds, I think,

so that might be a clue.

I'm going to hazard a guess and I'm going to go for Leeds.

Leeds?

So close, actually. Simply ten miles away.

-It's in Bradford.

-Oh, OK. OK.

That's why you knew it cos it was close to home?

I've had to drag my kids there many a time, pretending to educate them.

OK, Chris, nothing there for you, I'm afraid.

Karen, we come back to you for your next question.

Cleve is out of this running. Anybody else you can choose from.

-I'm going to choose Abi, please.

-Our Dr Abi.

Well, it is actually a medical question,

but it should be relatively simple.

-I am going to go with ear.

-The ear.

-The ear?

-Well done, it is the ear.

-Thank you.

-Well done.

And well done to you, Karen. £200 for you.

Jim, we come to you next.

Well, obviously, I can't choose Cleve any more, so somebody who is

probably the same age as me is Len.

So, I'm going to go for Len.

-So, we are both 27, great!

-LAUGHTER

-And a bit.

-Our retired engineer, Len.

When I seen this question go up, I got really excited because

in 1971, I actually joined the Merchant Navy.

I was only there for two weeks training in Gravesend,

spent a week in sickbay and came home and didn't like it.

But anyway, back to the question.

Excluding the Union Jack in the corner,

what colour is the flag of the Merchant Navy?

If I had to be totally honest,

I have no idea whatsoever,

so this is going to be a guess.

I'm going to go for blue,

-although I've no idea. Blue.

-Blue.

No, it's red, unfortunately.

Red.

It's known as the Red Duster, in fact.

-That was my other choice.

-LAUGHTER

OK, nothing for you, Jim, there.

Chris, seven of the eight, just not Cleve.

I think this time I'm going to go for Peter.

OK, I've got this question right, but I watch a lot of films. OK.

Which James Bond film was

promoted with the tag line

"Everything he touches turns

"to excitement!"?

The one I'm potentially thinking it could be...

is Goldfinger, maybe,

because he touches with his finger, I guess.

I think I'm going to go with that, yeah. Goldfinger.

Goldfinger, Peter?

You have the golden touch, it's correct.

-CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

-Thank you.

Goldfinger it was indeed, and it contains that marvellous line.

When James Bond is tied up, he says, "Do you expect me to talk?"

And Goldfinger says, "No, Mr Bond. I expect you to die!"

LAUGHTER Gert Frobe was Goldfinger.

So, £200 for you, Chris. Well done.

Karen, we come back to you, and still anybody but Cleve.

I'd like to choose Anisha, please.

Our office assistant, Anisha.

Oh, thank you.

I'm a big fan of music,

especially modern music, and this is a music-related question.

So it is...

Never quite understood why she called herself this.

I was hoping somebody at some point would enlighten me

cos it's quite plain I think for the type of person that she is.

I do believe that it is Beyonce.

Beyonce.

-That is correct. Well done, yes.

-All right.

And do you know why it was called the Mrs Carter Show?

Because she is married Jay Z and his last name is Carter.

So she's Beyonce Carter.

-There you are. You are enlightened.

-Wow!

-Thank you very much.

-You're welcome.

-Thank you.

£200 for you, Karen. Jim, we come to you. Still anyone but Cleve.

I'm going to go this time for Max.

Our PR executive, Max.

All right, Jim, well, I don't know whether you're into

your 20th-century novels, but this was a gift of a question to

me because he's really one of my favourite authors. So...

When I said some of my worst subjects...

..was literature, I actually meant it.

LAUGHTER

The only one I think is a Graham Greene novel that I've heard

of was, and I could be totally wrong, Brighton Rock.

I could be totally wrong. So I'm going along with Brighton Rock.

Brighton Rock.

Well, Jim, Brighton Rock is a Graham Greene novel.

It's not the one we're looking for here, I'm afraid.

The answer is Our Man In Havana.

Oh! Our Man In Havana.

And the author, Graham Greene,

was in fact a member of MI6 and worked in counter espionage.

Nothing for you there, Jim.

Chris, your turn again, and still you can choose anybody you like,

just not Cleve.

Well, I think as the only person

who hasn't been asked a question yet,

I am going to go for Jordan.

Jordan, our make-up artist.

So it's a another film question for you.

85 costume changes for Madonna

in which film?

Now, I know that Madonna is obviously more well-known for her

music rather than her films.

I'm trying to think of the films she's been in, and the only one

that springs to mind is Evita.

So I'm going to go with Evita.

Evita?

-You're right, it's Evita. Well done.

-Well done.

In fact,

Madonna won a Golden Globe for her performance in Evita as well.

OK, well done.

Chris, £200 for you, and that brings us to the end of the round.

Let's see how your prize funds have changed.

You are all tied on £600.

Well, one of you is going to have to leave the game shortly,

but anyone of you could take the lead as well.

All of you are going to be asked the same question.

Two members of the Think Tank will then tell you the answer

they gave before the show and their reasons for giving it.

Only one of them will have the correct answer.

If you side with the right person, you'll add £200 to your prize fund.

Only five questions remain before we do have to say goodbye

to one of you, so choose your answer carefully.

And here is the first question.

Answers coming up from Jordan and Arminel. Jordan first.

Well, I think these days a lot of people,

especially young people, have lost faith in

a lot of world leaders and politicians,

so the person who sprang to my mind who relates to young people

by getting involved in selfies and funny videos and being

a bit self deprecating and overall pretty cool guy is Barack Obama.

So I said him.

Arminel.

I think it was Angela Merkel because I do seem to remember in 2015

that she was a very admired world leader,

so I'm hoping that that admiration also extended into 2016,

or that maybe my memory was a bit muddled between 2015/2016.

I know that she was a very admired world leader.

Jordan is saying it's Barack Obama,

Arminel thinks it's Angela Merkel.

What do you think, contestants?

Lock in your answers, please.

And what you come up with?

Karen says Angela Merkel.

Jim and Chris have gone with Barack Obama.

Who's right?

Barack Obama, it is.

Well done, Jordan. In fact, Arminel, Angela Merkel was in the top five,

so you weren't too far out, there you go.

OK, £200 for Jim and Chris and here's our next question.

Len and Arminel taking on this one.

-Len.

-Yes.

I said 1980 because decimalisation came in, in the '70s, and I think

it actually went out in the early '80s.

Arminel?

Len and I are the same age, so we, both of us, remember

pre-decimalisation, but I think that the halfpenny had gone out before

the '80s and it went out in the '70s.

OK.

So, Len is saying the 1980s,

Arminel is says it's the 1970s.

Lock in your answers.

Who is going to be on the money here?

All three of you say it was

the 1970s.

Let's have a look.

It was in the 1980s

when the halfpenny was withdrawn.

It lasted longer than I thought.

They started phasing it out in 1984.

-Oh, God!

-Oh, Arminel, don't look too upset. It's OK.

Small change! THEY LAUGH

Thank you. OK.

Nothing for any of you there and we move on to question number three.

According to a 2010 supermarket study,

what is the favourite dish of students?

Anisha and Cleve. Anisha.

So I said it was spaghetti Bolognese

because when I went to uni,

I went in as a size eight

and I finished my first year

as a size 12 because

all I ate was spag bol and doughnuts and crisps and pizzas and stuff.

It's really, really easy to make.

The secret ingredient, by the way,

is tomato ketchup.

It's amazing, just try it.

All right. Cleve.

Well, I've had two daughters at university and I do know apart from

my final West Indian cooking, which they asked for on

a regular basis, the cheap and cheerful dish that what every

student is able to deal with was beans on toast.

Anisha says spaghetti Bolognese,

Cleve says beans on toast.

They're both absolutely delicious,

but you've got to choose one.

Lock in your answers.

Karen and Chris have gone with

spaghetti Bolognese,

Jim wants beans on toast.

Who's right?

Spaghetti Bolognese

is the right answer.

So the other five, apart from spaghetti Bolognese,

-were jacket potato, frozen pizza...

-I ate that.

..stir-fry and beans on toast.

So, £200 then for Karen and Chris

and me move on to question number four.

Abi and Max taking this one on. Abi.

Um, so, the reason I went with

my answer is because of Minerva McGonagall

in the Harry Potter books, and she converts into a cat.

So I know that JK Rowling uses a lot of her material ideas from

mythology, so I went with a cat.

-Max.

-Yeah.

So, Minerva, obviously being the goddess of wisdom,

slightly snatched from the Greek goddess Athena, and I wasn't really

sure what animal was associated with her, but I thought,

if she's about wisdom, what's the wisest animal?

Well, an owl.

So, I'd probably say that she's depicted with an owl.

All right, Abi's gone for cat,

Max says it's an owl.

What do you think, contestants?

Lock in your answers, please.

What have you come up with?

Karen and Jim think it's an owl.

Chris has gone with the cat.

Which one is right?

It was an owl, well done.

And, Max, quite right, owls have become synonymous with wisdom.

So well deduced.

£200 for Karen and Jim, and we come to our final question in this round.

Now, you are all tied on £1,000, so this answer is really important, OK?

Anisha and Peter having a go here. Anisha.

There's a simple reason, really.

If you just look at Europe, I thought France looked pretty big

and I thought I'll go for France.

Peter?

I went with Germany because they seem to produce really good GDP

in cars and so they would need a large population to feed it.

-So I think Germany.

-OK.

Anisha says it's France,

Peter says the largest population

in the EU is Germany.

Lock in your answers, please, contestants.

Important answer, this one.

What have you come up with?

So, Karen says France.

Jim and Chris say it's Germany.

What is the answer?

Germany, it is.

Germany has a population of more than 80 million,

France has 64 million people.

So £200 for Jim and Chris.

That brings us to the end of the round, and at the end

of the main game, the scores are as follows.

Jim and Chris are tied on £1,200

and just behind them, on £1,000, is Karen.

We have to say goodbye to you, Karen, I'm afraid.

-All came down to that last answer.

-Yes.

-So close.

Thank you very much for playing. You've done very well.

-I hope you've had a fun time with us.

-Yes, thank you for having me.

-It's been great.

-Well done, Jim and Chris.

You two will now compete to take home the money you've earned

in our final.

Jim, that was close, wasn't it? Coming down to the last answer.

-How confident were you on that one?

-Not very.

Well, your luck, for somebody with your past,

-has held pretty well, hasn't it, Jim, eh?

-Yes, not too badly.

OK. If you were to win today then,

what would you spend your winnings on?

A holiday, obviously, would figure highly.

-But the good lady would like a new kitchen.

-Ah.

You'd have to get that Question Impossible, then.

Well, I might have to. If I get that far, yes.

Chris, how have you felt doing the quiz so for?

-You've felt reasonably confident?

-Yes.

After a shaky start - got my first question wrong.

But, yeah, it's been OK.

What would you spend your money on?

Well, I'm not a homeowner, so not a kitchen.

-I did recently get engaged.

-Ah, that's nice. Congratulations.

Thank you very much. Thank you, Bill.

So I think it will go in the wedding pot.

How did you propose to your fiance?

I took her to the top of Richmond Castle.

Lovely castle, small North Yorkshire town, and surprised her at the top.

-She wasn't expecting it?

-She had no idea.

-And you got down on one knee?

-I did indeed, I did indeed.

I got a bit worried on the way there cos we did a few other things in the

afternoon and as we were heading towards the castle she said,

"I'm a bit tired, shall we go to the castle tomorrow?"

-And I just said, "No, no!"

-"No, no, no!"

-THEY LAUGH

-"We're going to the castle!"

-She didn't get too cross about it?

-No.

-"I don't know why we're going up this castle."

-Yeah.

OK. Well done you for being so romantic.

OK. Good luck to you both then in the final.

It's a general knowledge battle. I'll ask you five questions each.

Whoever gets the most correct answers,

takes home the money they built up so far, OK?

You're not on your own.

The Think Tankers are still here to help you, if they can.

You can pick someone to consult with before you answer the questions.

Each member can only be picked once this time, though.

And the difference in the final is that they haven't seen any of

these questions before, so they're just as much in the dark as you, OK?

All right, let's play the final.

Jim, we're going to start with you. Here's your first question.

Who would you like to go with

-on that one?

-Well, I think I'll go Arminel.

OK, Arminel.

Well, I do have a good idea. Do you have an idea?

I think I know exactly what it is.

Oh, let's hope we're in agreement then.

We could try saying it together.

Yes, I think it's situation comedy.

I agree. Situation comedy.

-Situation?

-We'll go along with situation.

What is the sit short for in the TV term sitcom?

You say situation. Have you chosen the right word?

Situation indeed.

Now, just wondering about your strategy here, Jim.

Was it a tactical choice to take Arminel out of the running

in case any science questions come up for Chris? Or...

-Yes(!)

-LAUGHTER

It was tactical in the respect that I thought if I didn't...

If I had got it wrong, it wasn't quite right, Arminel would've known.

-All right.

-So there was no dirty dealing done.

We believe you, Jim.

OK. You're off the mark then, Jim.

Chris,

here's your first question.

Who can help you here?

-I think maybe Len.

-Len.

Barnaby, Barnaby... Have you any ideas at all?

No, I really don't have any ideas.

What's the actor? Is it Nettles, his name, is it?

Yes. Er...

Midsomer Murders.

Midsomer Murders, that's the one I'm sort of edging towards, I think.

Yeah, I think Midsomer Murders is a good guess.

-Shall we go for that?

-That's your answer, Midsomer Murders?

-Yeah.

DCI Tom Barnaby

and DCI John Barnaby are characters in which TV detective series?

You're saying Midsomer Murders.

Let's see if you've chosen correctly.

Midsomer Murders it is, well done. APPLAUSE

John Nettles played Tom Barnaby from 1997 to 2011.

14 years, long time.

So, 1-1. Well done.

Jim, your second question.

Who's going to help you out now?

Well, I think I've got to go with Anisha since you're into music.

I am into my music. I just want to know what you're thinking.

I think it's Katy Perry.

I believe it's Katy Perry as well, so I think you should say that.

-What more can I say? Katy Perry.

-Katy Perry.

Raw and Firework are UK hit singles by which

American singer? You're saying

it's Katy Perry. Are you right?

You are indeed. Katy Perry. Well done.

So where's all this knowledge come from, Jim?

Just I used to do a bit of DJing myself.

-Did you?

-A little bit, yeah.

We have two DJs in the final.

Listen, if you get tied at the end of five,

-we'll just get a couple of turntables in...

-Yeah.

-..you can have a contest.

-A scratch-off.

-A scratch contest.

Think Tank after party, perhaps.

Think Tank after party, now you're talking. All right.

All right, Jim, 2-1 to you.

Chris, your chance

to equalise with this question.

Who do you want to choose for this one?

I'm going to go Peter.

-Peter.

-Oh, my geography's really appalling.

-Sorry, Peter.

-It's got to be very cold, I imagine,

-so Atlantic's American-y, isn't it?

-Yeah.

North Sea's sort of like England, North-ish.

Yeah, I don't think it's the North Sea.

The Dead Sea is like in the middle, which no-one can get to.

Yeah, it's not that one.

-It's that bit in there.

-Yeah.

Have you got any idea?

I think... I think it might be the Norwegian Sea.

I'm not too sure.

That would be my best guess, I would say. So, yeah, Norwegian Sea.

-Would do you reckon, Peter?

-I don't know my seas, sadly.

-I never got given a globe as a kid.

-Aw!

Norwegian Sea, shall we go for?

Norwegian Sea, you want to go with? OK.

Sweden, Finland,

Russia, Poland, Germany and Denmark all have coastlines on which sea?

You're saying it's the Norwegian Sea.

Have you made the right choice?

-It's the Baltic Sea that we were after.

-Yeah.

The Baltic Sea is the northern arm of the Atlantic Ocean.

The Norwegian Sea is between Norway and Iceland.

Oh, OK, so further off that way.

So, a miss for you there, Chris.

Jim, we come to you

for your third question.

Half of the Think Tank left for you to choose from.

Abi, Cleve, Jordan or Max.

I'll go with Max. He's obviously an avid film viewer.

I have no idea whatsoever.

It's pretty harrowing, this particular scene,

where Leonardo DiCaprio

is attacked and it's obviously set in the sort of brutal

Western fringes of the American frontier

and he is attacked, I believe, by a bear.

Well, I have absolutely no idea,

so I'll go along with Max

-and say a bear.

-A bear?

In the 2015 film The Revenant, Leonardo DiCaprio's

character survives a brutal attack from which animal?

You're saying it's a bear. Are you on the right lines here?

-You are. There it is.

-Thank you.

And he did indeed win an Oscar for his performance in The Revenant.

3-1 to Jim.

Chris, still time to catch up.

Here's your next question.

So just three to go with here - Cleve, Abi or Jordan.

I think maybe I'll go with Cleve.

If you've going any idea, you might be able to help me out.

Quite a tough one.

If I was throwing something out, honestly,

just I would look towards maybe medicine.

Yeah, I really have no idea myself. I thought medicine maybe as well.

That's what I'd look at, medicine.

Obviously, other fields

-we could imagine.

-Yes.

It's your answer in the end, Chris?

Yes. I think I'm going to go with what we're thinking.

I think... Again it's a guess, Bill, but...

Medicine.

OK. The Iraqi-born

Dame Zaha Hadid was a leading name in which field?

You're saying medicine.

Let's see if you've chosen correctly.

Architecture was the answer.

So sorry, man.

No problem.

She designed the Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympics in London in fact.

So, 3-1 to Jim, which means, Jim,

if you get this next one right,

it'll mean Chris can't catch up and

you'll be our winner today. OK?

Jordan or Abi here to help you.

I'm going to go with Abi and I have said that I wasn't an avid reader...

..but I actually think I know this one.

Well, Inferno isn't something that I've come across,

but what were you thinking?

Well, I'm thinking... One of the books that I have read,

well, I read the trio, was Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code...

-All right, OK.

-..whatever,

and I think this is the fourth one of the series.

OK, sounds reasonable. It could easily be.

And I'm sure that I have actually read it!

-LAUGHTER

-Oh, right. OK.

-If you think you've read it.

-I'm certain this is the one

that I've read, so I'm actually going to go with Dan Brown.

Dan Brown is your answer?

-Yes.

-OK.

Inferno is a 2013

book by which author?

You're saying Dan Brown.

If you are correct, Jim,

you will be today's Think Tank winner. Let's see if you're right.

Dan Brown is the answer. Well done, Jim.

Congratulations,

you are today's winner. Good job.

And as you mentioned, Inferno was another book in the series

of Dan Brown books featuring Robert Langdon.

So, very well done.

Hard lines, Chris,

very well played.

You're not taking anything home, but I hope you've enjoyed being with us.

Yes, certainly. I've had a lovely day out.

Thank you very much for having me along.

Very good and it's been great to have you, so thank you.

Jim is our winner. You're definitely taking home your prize of £1,200,

but you will shortly have the chance to add an extra £1,000

to your winnings.

First, though, shall we take a moment to congratulate

the Think Tanker who gave the most correct answers during the show?

And it was...

..Arminel. Well done.

Who went on that magic science run at the beginning of the show.

-I was very lucky with the questions.

-Not at all.

We were lucky to have you with your amazing knowledge.

So, Jim, you have one last chance now to make a significant boost

to your prize as you face our Question: Impossible.

So, Jim, you said earlier that literature was not

one of your strong subjects, and yet, there you go,

you win on a book question.

For years, I didn't bother reading, then I decided I would lift a book,

it was The Da Vinci Code, and I read the other two, Angels And Demons...

-There you are, how lucky was that?

-Indeed. You are lucky after all.

OK, Jim, this is the toughest question of the whole show

because no-one in the Think Tank answered it correctly earlier.

So, if you can achieve what they couldn't

and give us a correct answer, that extra £1,000 will be yours, OK?

Let's take a look then at your Question: Impossible.

While you have a think about that, we'll give you a little bit of help

cos we'll take a look at the wrong answers

that the Think Tank gave earlier, OK?

-This will rule a few things out.

-OK.

-Here's what they came up with.

Not a lot, to be honest, to help you with, Spain or France.

That's as good as it got.

Most of them said France.

Anisha and Cleve went with Spain

but that is

the range of wrong answers that you can dismiss.

So, what do you think the answer could be?

Well...

There's a lot of countries in Europe,

including our own.

I sort of thought maybe Italy...

..or even Poland.

I think I'll go with Italy...

..but it's purely a total guess.

-Italy is your answer?

-Italy is my answer.

-OK.

Which European country has won more Oscars

in the best foreign-language film category then any other?

You're on £1,200 at the moment.

If you're right, you'll have an extra £1,000.

Good luck with this. Let's see if you're right.

Italy's the right answer. CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

Well done.

Well done.

I should have a job on there.

Italy's had 14 wins of the Oscars,

including Life Is Beautiful and Cinema Paradiso, so well done.

You've just added £1,000 to your prize fund.

It means you'll go home with £2,200.

And the big question now, then, is what are you going to spend it on?

Holiday or kitchen?

Well, I'll have a discussion...

-LAUGHTER

-..with the good lady.

And whatever she decides, we'll go with.

Well, we wish you good luck. Your luck's been pretty good so far,

-so you might get that holiday after all.

-It's been absolutely superb.

I've thoroughly enjoyed every minute.

Well, you've been a great competitor, Jim. Thanks.

-They're all lovely people, by the way.

-They are indeed.

Thanks for watching. Do join us next time when three more contestants

will see whether they can bank on the Think Tank.

-Until then, it's goodbye from them... THINK TANKERS:

-Bye!

And it's goodbye from me, bye-bye.